What's More Important: Paternal Line or Majority Ancestry?

[Ice]

Both are important, but I think ydna is more important because it never changes.

[Armenian Bishop]

I know. I don't see why the father's side should matter more than mother's though if you have more of a connection to your mother's side. I personally identify much more with my mother's side of the family.

I agree, and I too identify more strongly with my mother's side of the family.

[Creoda]

I agree, and I too identify more strongly with my mother's side of the family.

I feel closer to my mother's side simply because I grew up around them. I never knew my paternal grandparents, and all my father's family are on the other side of the world.

Having some rule that you identify more with the paternal side is weird, and a bit disrespectful IMO.

[Gwydion]

When I started the thread I didn't really have personal identification with one side of the family over the other in mind (I also identify in many regards with my mother's family compared to my father's) but more tribal and ethnic affiliation. Framing it a different way, if your paternal line is German while being a mix of German, Irish, and Polish, whose history, culture, and traditions do or should you most identify with? In many traditional societies it was almost always the paternal line which determined ones place in society and therefore also ones ethnicity/nation.

As a second somewhat similar question less related to questions of ethnicity or tribal association, do you think your two main lines (paternal and mother's paternal) are most important in ones family?

[Creoda]

When I started the thread I didn't really have personal identification with one side of the family over the other in mind (I also identify in many regards with my mother's family compared to my father's) but more tribal and ethnic affiliation. Framing it a different way, if your paternal line is German while being a mix of German, Irish, and Polish, whose history, culture, and traditions do or should you most identify with? In many traditional societies it was almost always the paternal line which determined ones place in society and therefore also ones ethnicity/nation.

As a second somewhat similar question less related to questions of ethnicity or tribal association, do you think your two main lines (paternal and mother's paternal) are most important in ones family?

Regardless of tradition, it's retarded for someone to be identified as a certain ethnicity when it's less than half their ancestry. Paternal line makes no difference to me in that respect, that is more about belonging to a clan than a nation. Besides, in Ireland, England and Scotland you have countless native surnames that are of foreign origin, and those who carry those surnames would never be considered foreigners. Two of my 4 Irish Great Grandparents' surnames were English and Welsh. Were they identified or did they identify as such? Definitely not; it's only a small part of their ancestry.

[MagBaX]

I think majority ancestry is more important. Sometimes our taxonomy and even personality is more determined by our maternal line, or both.

[frankhammer]

I know. I don't see why the father's side should matter more than mother's though if you have more of a connection to your mother's side. I personally identify much more with my mother's side of the family.

Interesting. I knew my father but not well. I was raised by my mother and step-father and whilst I have a fairly decent understanding going back to at least 1800 on both sides, I am what my father was but with genetic input from my mother. I've never thought otherwise.

[RenaRyuguu]

Interesting. I knew my father but not well. I was raised by my mother and step-father and whilst I have a fairly decent understanding going back to at least 1800 on both sides, I am what my father was but with genetic input from my mother. I've never thought otherwise.

Yes interesting it's really which side you inherit more from

[GreentheViper]

Majority ancestry.

[Visage pâle]

That's depend on many situations.
Ottomans Sultans since XVth century, were like 80% europeans for 20% turks (maximum). Yet they were referred as turks.